Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Shine like stars...

Here is Baxter on the role of a member of a church... (in Confirmation p. 337-338

Be not men of comon spirits, or common speech, or a common conversation; but as we must make a difference between you and others in our communion and church administrations, so let the rest see that it is not without cause. For if you be but like other men, we shall seem to be partial in making a difference between you and other men. Let your light therefore shine before men to the glory of your heavenly Father. Let them see that you despise the world, and live above it, and can easily part with it; that you can forgive and bear a wrong; that your heart is in heaven heaven, and your treasure there; and that you are the heirs of another world; let all men hear and see by you, that you have a higher design in your eye than the ungodly, and that you are driving on another trade than the men that have their portion in this life. Heaven is your real glory; and to be heavenly is your true reputative glory, not only in the eyes of the wise, but of the common earthworms of the world.

Let's give it our best shot...

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